"I lived in Lombardy for 10 years. I lived in Milan for 10 years. So, as you can see, it's a region that I'm very passionate about."
Italian wines with Sichuan hot pot, Taiwanese fried chicken, or stewed pork with garlic and five spice powder...
"Montepulciano is a medieval town. You can go inside, enter to a big gate, a big door. The first door is the Porta de Bacco."
Don't forget to look around.
"One of the biggest wine competitions in America actually is associated with a Houston livestock show and rodeo. And if you win, you get a saddle."
Have you ever noticed that sayings about hangovers seem to involve animals?
"The curves and curves and curves as I as I twisted up the mountain, my suitcase sliding back and forth in the trunk..."
"Each language has a poetical atmosphere and sounds. So I choose what I need."
"Historically, the wines from Campania were the most famous wines in Italy because Campania has been making wines for 2,000 years."
"If we can take shame out of out of one place, and it's a language classroom, good."
"What helps people learn language, it's relationships."
She learned Sicilian so she could know what the grownups were laughing about.